Narendra Dengle
Narendra Dengle is an architect, conservationist, educator, and writer, based in Pune, India. He was one of the founding partners of The GRÜP, New Delhi (1974-87) and is the Principal at Narendra Dengle & Associates since 1987. His practice is evolved around cultural, contextual, and aesthetic issues. His works, consisting of museums, temples, housing, tribal schools, hospitals, hotels and resorts, and educational campuses, carried out in rural and urban areas in India as well as the Sultanate of Oman, have featured in journals of architecture in India, France, South Arica, Italy, China, and the UAE. He has taught at the SPA New Delhi (1974-81), was the Chair of Design at KRVIA Mumbai (2006-11) Mumbai, the Academic Chair at Goa College of Architecture (2012-2014), the Academic Chair at the PVPCOA Pune (2015- 20), and is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of Goa College of Architecture. He is on the faculty of the Building Beauty Program, at Sant’Anna Institute, Sorrento, Italy since 2018 and Co-Chair of its Asian Advisory Board.
Solo exhibitions of his works and drawings were held in Pune, Mumbai, and Nagpur. He is the author of the books Jharoka (Marathi), 2007, The Discovery of Architecture: a contemporary treatise on ancient values & indigenous realty co-authored with M N Ashish Ganju, 2013, Dialogues with Indian Master Architects 2015, and The Architecture in Maharashtra: Tradition & Journey (2 volumes each in Marathi and English-awaiting publication). He has made films on Architectural Appreciation.
